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A recent example. Even after it became apparent that Biden won the election you could still sell 10:1 bets on Trump to win, on betfair, to suckers which refused to accept reality or vastly overestimated the probability for Trump to sabotage the elections and/or stage a coup.

It's basically free money.



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